Student Toolkit from the National Human Trafficking Resource Center

"Human Trafficking Prevention - Strategies for Runaway and Homeless Youth Settings" from the November 2020 issue of Family & Youth Services Bureau

A list of common indicators in hotels and motels that have been associated with situations of human trafficking in which individuals were compelled against their will to engage in commercial sex or forced labor.

This guide is a resource for the formation of new Task Forces, providing a stage-by-stage outline from startup and needs assessment to composition and structure of the group and Task Force meeting dynamics. Also, this guide can be used for restructuring, rebuilding or revitalizing purposes.

A list of common terms and definitions used by traffickers.

This guide is designed to help child welfare and delinquency professionals screen for possible youth victims of human trafficking. The tool should be used by Child Protection Investigators and Community-Based Care Lead Agency staff or their contracted providers.

Metaphorically, clouds and clocks represent two ends of the same spectrum. Clouds refer to the unpredictable, indeterminate, and/or irregular factors that might impact victim risk. While clocks represent the known and predictable risk factors associated with victims of human trafficking.

Explain the definition of sex trafficking and describe why this is a serious problem that needs our attention. Demonstrate why victims are not often identified as we look at a survivor’s police record to show the invisible signs of trafficking. Review and understand the mind of a survivor. Describe complex PTSD and why a survivor does not run from her trafficker, understand how resilience helps in recovery, and what the recovery process looks like.

This FBI resource provides information for obtaining help for victims of human trafficking.

The Trafficking in Persons Symposium’s prime objective was to use this information to develop SME informed training for first responders, child welfare and juvenile justice personnel, medical professionals, educators, social service providers and the public—aimed at supporting and enhancing abilities to identify and respond to child trafficking.